The book addresses questions such as: how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation-building tasks? W

Relatively little is known about the processes of nation-building in Southeast Asia, especially in the case of Singapore. Having moved rapidly form colonial sta

This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used

Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

The idea of the 'nation' is a Western concept which has been applied to Southeast Asia. It is a project which has been in progress since the last century but is